The Topeka Daily State Journal Thursday May 16, 1918 Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued from the office of Ralph Gaw, probate judge to the following: Charles Lee WHITLEY, Ness City, Kan., 22, and Ethel CALDWELL, Fairview, Kan., 23. Claude Joseph BERRY, Meriden, Kan, 29; Freda May THOMAS, Meriden, Kan., 16.